[PD] Problem with this (involved) abstraction for XY

[Pierre Alexandre Tremblay]

Oh the capital shout - I hadn’t seen that in a while :)

There isn’t but I won’t blame anyone, they are a pain to write. So much love goes into software maintenance…

I’m spying this:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/commits/master

> On 30 Aug 2023, at 10:13, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
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> Pierre Alexandre Tremblay schreef op 30-08-2023 9:27:
>> Dear Miller and Christof
>> I’m sorry to be the cause of pain - I will amend the patch now but
>> what is strange in this one is that recoding it actually changes its
>> behaviour.
>> In all cases, I wish I had seen the changelog entry that would tell me
>> how the hidden but essential donecanvasdialog settings / behaviour has
>> changed. In all case, I hope this unexpected behaviour report is
>> somewhat helpful.
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> WHERE IS THIS CHANGELOG ENTRY TO BE FOUND?
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> ROLF
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>> I know my desire to stay vanilla complicates things too, but again, so
>> many combinations of hardware and oses I think might justify my
>> self-inflicted pain
>> p
>>> On 29 Aug 2023, at 23:36, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> wrote:
>>> Sigh.
>>> @Miller Can we please finally get https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/627? This PR has been sitting around for more than 4 years now. In the meantime, people kept abusing the private "donecanvasdialog" message in place of a better and officially supported alternative, and they will continue to do so...
>>> Christof
>>> On 30.08.2023 00:14, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
>>>> Ok a lot more investigations later, I have isolated the change of behaviour.
>>>> donecanvasdialog 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>>> Which was used to reset the patcher’s sub patchers at the top left is corrupting the ability for a struct to broadcast its click through a graph. Now, can anyone on the Pd dev confirm this?
>>>> How to reproduce:
>>>>> https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10854/xy-abstraction-to-get-mouse-click-and-drag-coordinates-vanilla
>>>> In pd 0.53.2 it works
>>>> In pd 0.54.0 it doesn’t receive the click from the #0-rectangle (so it draws and emits nothing)
>>>> To fix it, remove top left the donecanvasdialog elements (2 of them)
>>>> Then reinstantiate the 3 pd Subpatches on the right
>>>> (Or you can just try the one I attach)
>>>> It is not fixed completely yet but the click gets through now. I really wonder what has changed there…
>>>> Any pointer (pun intended) welcome
>>>> p
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